Recent Scholarship
Slavery
Alderman, Derek H., “Surrogation and the Politics of Remembering Slavery in Savannah, Georgia,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 36 (Jan. 2010), 90–101.
Baptist, Edward E., “Toxic Debt, Liar Loans, and Securitized Human Beings: The Panic of 1837 and the Fate of Slavery,” Common-Place, 10 (April 2010), http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-03/baptist/.
Boaz, Danielle, “Religious Reparations from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Forming Demons, Cults, and Zombies to Justify Black Enslavement,” St. Thomas Law Review, 20 (Spring 2008), 604–21.
Crowe, Justin, “Westward Expansion, Preappointment Politics, and the Making of the Southern Slaveholding Supreme Court,” Studies in American Political Development, 24 (April 2010), 90–120.
Edwards, Laura F., “The Forgotten Legal World of Thomas Ruffin: The Power of Presentism in the History of Slave Law,” North Carolina Law Review, 87 (March 2009), 855–900.
Ellis, R. J., “‘So Amiable and Good’: Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative and Its Lineages,” Mississippi Quarterly, 62 (Winter–Spring 2009), 137–62.
England-Huff, Ashley, “Abraham Lincoln and Salmon P. Chase: Differing Backgrounds Predictive of Disparate Positions on Slavery,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 36 (no. 2, 2009), 317–31.
Fett, Sharla M., “Middle Passages and Forced Migrations: Liberated Africans in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Camps and Ships,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 31 (March 2010), 75–98.
Finkelman, Paul, “John McLean: Moderate Abolitionist and Supreme Court Politician,” Vanderbilt Law Review, 62 (March 2009), 519–65.
Finkelman, Paul, “The American Suppression of the African Slave Trade: Lessons on Legal Change, Social Policy, and Legislation,” Akron Law Review, 42 (no. 2, 2009), 431–67.
Finkelman, Paul, “Was Dred Scott Correctly Decided? An ‘Expert Report’ for the Defendant,” Lewis & Clark Law Review, 12 (Winter 2008), 1219–52.
Holland, David F., “Sovereign Silences and the Voice of War in the American Conflict over Slavery,” Law & History Review, 26 (Fall 2008), 571–94.
Moneta, Daniela, “Virginia Pughs and North Carolina Wests: A Genetic Link from Slavery in Kentucky,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (Sept. 2009), 179–94.
Morgan, Philip D., “Ending the Slave Trade: A Caribbean and Atlantic Context,” in Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic, ed. Derek Peterson, 101–28. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. x, 235 pp. Cloth, $64.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1901-4. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1902-1.)
Osborn, Ronald, “William Lloyd Garrison and the United States Constitution: The Political Evolution of an American Radical,” Journal of Law and Religion, 24 (no. 1, 2008–2009), 65–88.
Rutherglen, George, “State Action, Private Action, and the Thirteenth Amendment,” Virginia Law Review, 94 (Oct. 2008), 1367–1406.
Schiller, Ben, “Selling Themselves: Slavery, Survival, and the Path of Least Resistance,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 23, Summer 2009), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/back/issue23/schiller.pdf.
Schulten, Susan, “The Cartography of Slavery and the Authority of Statistics,” Civil War History, 56 (March 2010), 5–32.
Dierksheide, Christa Breault, “The Amelioration of Slavery in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1770–1840” (University of Virginia, 2009). Order No. DA3364918.
Jacobs, Sharita Elizabeth, “Competing Realities: Black Southern Marylanders and Their Quest to Shape Freedom in ‘Loyal’ Maryland, 1860–1880” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365868.
Behrendt, Stephen D., A. J. H. Latham, and David Northrup, The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xii, 300 pp. $74.00, isbn 978-0-19-537618-0.)
Christianson, Scott, Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. xiv, 214 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03439-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07688-6.)
Hunt, Robert, The Good Men Who Won the War: Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. xii, 178 pp. $36.00, isbn 978-0-8173-1688-4.)
Li, Stephanie, Something Akin to Freedom: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. x, 162 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-1-4384-2971-7.)
Morgans, James Patrick, The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier: Escapes from Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, and the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska, and the Indian Nations, 1840–1865. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2010. x, 221 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3791-7.)
Peterson, Derek, ed., Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. x, 235 pp. Cloth, $64.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1901-4. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1902-1.)
Carretta, Vincent, and Ty M. Reese, eds., The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010. xii, 219 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8203-3319-9.)
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